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Kent Sharkey wrote: currently known as Clip
I can't be the only one who read this and instantly thought: "Great, a device from Microsoft that will listen to everything I say and offer helpful suggestions like 'It looks like you are trying to bake a cake, here are some places that sell industrial adhesive.' or 'It sounds like you are trying to get out of a traffic ticket. Here are some lawyers in your area.'"
If it has googly eyes, I'm claiming SkyNet.
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Just what we need, the return of clippy!
(As an example of the rule that any internet search will eventually turn of NSFW material, searching for Clippy managed to find "Conquered by Clippy, an erotic short story". The mind just boggles).
(Naturally, I've saved the link for later er, investigation, when I get home )
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Facebook's chief technical officer, Mike Schroepfer, says that when the company thinks about where it wants to be by 2025, it aims to "effectively build a teleporter."
"Facebook wants to build a device that allows you to be anywhere you want, with anyone, regardless of geographic boundaries," Schroepfer added at a press event on Tuesday morning before his appearance at the Dublin Web Summit. [^]
You gotta understand that Mike is just plain bored counting his stock options and planning new ways to hi-jack and monetize Facebook users' personal data and private communications.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Wasn't that Microsoft's tag line (years ago)?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Hi Daniel, I believe Ms's tag-line used the word "go" rather than "be."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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The vast majority of websites you visit are sending your data to third-party sources, usually without your permission or knowledge. That’s not exactly breaking news, but the sheer scale and ubiquity of that leakage might be. "Be seeing you"
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I avoid the top websites.
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Codeproject.com[^] is #1146 globally. It's been nice knowing you; I hope wherever you go from here works out well for you.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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After an hour in QA I feel like a bottom.
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20,000 samples found impersonating apps from Twitter, Facebook, and others. "These aren't the droids you're looking for."
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The UK government today published a draft version of the Investigatory Powers Bill setting out a framework for new surveillance powers. Among the proposed measures is a requirement for ISPs to keep a record of every website their customers visit for 12 months. UK only (for now), but I don't know if I want the government to know how often I visit CP
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Why are companies that target developers suddenly the hottest ticket in town? Maybe Ballmer was right for a change?
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Because there are a lot of developers who can't tie their shoes without help.
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My impression from reading the examples (most of which I have never heard of) of tools-for-devs the article enumerates is that these tools would be primarily used by very few people on a developer-team, or in a company. The few users would be the devs/program-managers who set-up/administer back-up/revision software, group collaboration software, etc.
The question I'd ask would be: does any of this economic "fluffing up" of the value of companies the author talks about really indicate any evidence of generating more jobs for developers ... developers "in the trenches/cubicles" who write code ?
Or, isn't this type of software just another facet of the general trend of hiring sub-contractors on an ad hoc basis, outsourcing whenever possible ... the net effect of this general trend (if you buy the premise here) fewer jobs ... full-time, health benefits, etc. ... for programmers ?
I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts, thanks, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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As a technology team grows it is critical that safeguards and processes are put in place to keep the platform stable and secure. If it ships, it ain't broke?
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All code is good until proven otherwise.
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Having great programming skills doesn’t guarantee you anything. People don’t care about coding, they only care about the end result of coding and the value a program brings to them. Marketing developers! Marketing developers! Marketing developers!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Having great programming skills doesn’t guarantee you anything
It does - it absolutely guarantees you a job.
Presumably the next in this series of articles is "How to get media attention for your nudist beach volleyball event"...
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That depends... is it a developers' nude beach volleyball event?
TTFN - Kent
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Killjoy!
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One can play volleyball while holding a cup of ?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Earlier this year, the European Union accused Google of monopolistic practices, alleging that, among other things, it unfairly prioritized its comparison shopping service when users searched for things to buy. Air is free too, and I think someone could take advantage of my use of it
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There are many ways to measure the popularity of a language. But this dataset is a rare way to find out what technologies people tend to dislike, when given the opportunity to talk about them. "And I hate that I love you so"
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I'm happy to see that SourceSafe is still highly hated.
I'd rather be phishing!
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